January 2018 comics thread

Priest’s still pretty busy (JL is twice monthly!), so he might not answer any questions here for a while, but in the meantime talk amongst yourselves.

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I honestly don’t get it. I have zero doubts that it’s all going to be a hoax, and just Priest’s awesome idea to get Batman and Slade to fight without having to kill one or the other. And it gets to the root of family. I’d also like it if it shook some of Damian’s really obnoxious “pure blood” snobbery and cruelty to non-blood Robins and Batfamily members. Dunno if that’s on Priest’s mind, but I’d love it. 🙂

Well… Slade is always my favorite character in DC, but i hate Damian. The whole Batman/Damian thing still interesting… a bit. I can’t be excited, because obvious, that in the end, this will be a fake thing. So this just an unnecessary story, a waste of time.
Still give it a chance. Of course. Favorite writer, favorite book.

I figure there’s no such thing as an “unnecessary” story or an intrinsically bad plot, just ones that are harder to pull off…but when they *are* done well, they’re even better for the higher degree of difficulty. Even an “idiot plot” (one where the plot can only work if everyone involved is an idiot) isn’t impossible to do entertainingly.

At this point, it’s pretty clear there’s a bunch of new people who are Googling for places to post about Damian, and many of them are in the “the sky is falling” camp or even the “I will hurl insults because I just know I’ll hate the story” camp. I’m not going to approve any new posters coming here to talk about Damian until AFTER the story has seen print. If the al Ghul family tree fanclub wants to discuss the story once it’s out, fine. If Priest wants to approve the posts himself, fine. But I’m not inclined to let the board turn into another chapter in the “I just know they’ll treat Damian badly” ongoing flamewar. I can also unapprove posters who have been approved in the past if they start something.

Civil discussion and disagreement are fine. Shouting “it will suck!” or “you better not!” to the rafters months before the story has been told are not fine.

Priest has the utmost respect for the characters he writes, even the minor characters. He treats them all like people, and he treats people the way he wants to be treated. Knowing everyone has a reason, a backstory, internal motivations, and a purpose greater than themselves. But, he’ll be just as quick to call bullshit if he sees pretension and nonsense in fictional heroes as he does on real people and himself, for that matter. He’ll treat them with respect, by banishing nonsense as quickly as he can. It is his way.

(Note: it’s almost entirely one guy who keeps using multiple fake names a day at this point, the other people who came here solely to doomsay about the story do seem to be waiting. And yes, we can tell when someone is sockpuppeting.)

Is Priest planning on sharing his thoughts on the Black Panther film in February? Maybe an Alamo Drafthouse screening with comments afterward? (I hope he gets some kind of acknowledgement in the film.)

Hey Mr.Priest are you going to continue your JL run in some shape or form? Im really loving what you’re doing but it was just announced that Snyder was going to write the main book in April and I’d hate to see you go.